09-13-03

REALbasic News by Seth Willits

TCplus 1.1
TCplus is a calculator with integrated Time Code functions. It works
with Time Code values in all common formats as well as Keycode and feet
and meter lengths. The calculator uses the inversed polish notation
(IPN), well known for all HP-users. TCplus is also available for Mac OS 7.1 - 9.2.

Virtual Volume Browser b1
Simply put, this application allows you to browse REALbasic Virtual Volumes with Finder-like ease. This is the first beta release of program.

FontCatalog 1.0
Designed to help graphic artists find typefaces faster when looking at a printed sample, FontCatalog is a convienient font viewer and manager. Ever wanted to know what a font looks like? Forget selecting fonts one by one, view hundreds of fonts simultaneously! The most powerful and innovative feature of FontCatalog is the "Similar" button which allows you to find all fonts similar to a selected font. FontCatalog has a free 10-day evaluation demo and costs only $29.95 with a 30-day money back guarantee.

ZeboPhoto v1.3.4
This image viewing and editing program has just added an "exciting new feature" called Catalog View which allows you to preview images in a folder. Similar to the preview column in Finder, you can preview images in a folder while holding the Command key, in fullscreen mode or in windowed mode allowing you to start a slide show with a single click. Interestingly, Zebo costs whatever you pay for it, giving you the choice to pay as little as $7.50 or as much as you have in your Swiss bank account Uncle Lenney gave you.

MacIcon
This REALbasic class for Mac OS allows you to either get a MacIcon object for any system or file icon, or draw it directly as a picture in REALbasic 5.5 (which has not yet been released. MacIcon is free for your use, but it's not public domain. Paid support plans are available.

IntelliSwipe USB Credit Card Reader
This latest gadget comes from Intelli Innovations and allows you swipe credit cards in a USB credit card reader. The $229.95 kit is driverless, instantly works with any Macintosh application, supports all mamjor credit cards, has embedded good/bad LED indicators, and comes with a six foot USB cable. IntelliSwipe is made with REALbasic.

Informator 1.0
This multifunctional Finder Get Info replacement has many features specific to developers including a Catalog Info viewer, viewing and editing of file properties, icon modification, can execute shell scripts, a hex viewer, ascii viewer, and permissions management. Some features designed for all users include basic file editing (creator, type, rename), previewing, and more. Informator is $29.95 shareware.

FMOD Wrappers v0.1b
These classes and modules, supporting Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X (Carbon only) and Windows, implement a subset of the FMOD library's features including physically-correct 3d sound, audio channels and playback frequency, multiple sound formats, and MOD music. The author notes although this REALbasic project is free, FMOD itself is not unless your end product is freeware.

09-10-03

Custom Buttons Part II by Seth Willits

Taking the baton from part 1 of the tutorial, we're going to continue running with learning how to create custom buttons. On Wednesday we learned how to create a standard pushbutton-type button using a custom canvas subclass which we created, CButton. Next we're going to learn to make our CButton class a little more generalized allowing us to use the same class in multiple cases, but our instances are able to take on different appearances and different behaviors. Read more...

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